TWENTY-NINTH FLORIDA LAND SURVEYOR'S COUNCIL RETREAT

Certified Florida Provider Combined Courses
CEP #0001374-Course #0006518

	If you're not a current Council member and want to attend this Retreat,   pay your 2011-2012 membership dues online now and be sure to renew your   2012-2013 membership due on November 1, 2012.

Here's your chance to get your 24 Mandatory Continuing Education Hours for Professional Surveyor & Mapper license renewal in one action-packed three-day Retreat (or to help you get involved in understanding and upgrading your profession). We’re putting on our Twenty-Ninth Council Retreat in Kissimmee that is FREE for any of our current Land Surveyor's Council members to attend. Read on!!

The Retreat will convene at The Ramada Gateway Hotel (see details below) on August 16, 17 & 18, 2010, from 7:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. In the unlikely event that our work is not complete by 5:00 p.m. on the last day of the Retreat, it may be necessary to stay for a somewhat longer period that evening.

The meetings will be held at The Ramada Gateway Hotel  at which sleeping rooms are arranged for students. Students are encouraged to stay at the seminar hotel. Be sure to ask the hotel for the Council's group rate -- they will not volunteer it! If you fail to ask, we won't fight your battle for you with the front desk. Students not staying at the seminar hotel must pay a one-time additional $50.00 fee in addition to their tuition fee. Please call (800) 874-7876 for detailed information.

Hotel Name: Ramada Gateway Hotel
Student Group Rate: $35.00 (or $45.00 in the "Tower")
Group ID when registering at hotel: "LSS1021"
Hotel Address:
        7470 West Irlo Bronson Memorial (Highway 192)
        Kissimmee, FL 34747
Hotel Phone Number: (407) 396-4400
Hotel Email Address: www.ramada.com

Florida Land Surveyors August Rate: $35.00, Single or Double

 

BADGES:

Retreat attendees must have a Florida Land Surveyor’s Council badge in order to attend this Retreat. Also, to receive full credit for this Retreat, be sure to bring your surveyor’s seal.  The Florida Land Surveyor’s Council Latin motto is "Agrimensores Defendentes Jura Agrorum Dominorum." In English, this translates to "Surveyors Protecting the Property Right of Landowners." This motto is proudly displayed on your badge along with our logo. For those of you who want to order your badges now, the current price for the badges is $20.00. To order your badge, contact us immediately in order that your badge can be ready for the Retreat.

PEER REVIEW:

By the way, we'll be having our usual "Peer Review" at this Retreat, so you must bring three (3) survey drawings to be admitted! -- No Excuses!

MANDATORY CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS FOR LICENSE RENEWAL:

Accordingly, Council member PSM’s who complete this Retreat will receive the full 24 credits for attendance at this Retreat for license renewal. Earned Continuing Education Credit Hours will be reported to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation by the  Council. As always, this Retreat is FREE to current members of the Council.

PROGRAM:

The program for the Retreat will be taught by Mr. Ted Madson, Mr. Larry Talbert and Mr. John O'Neill and will address laws, rules, issues and current events impacting surveying and mapping in Florida today:

 

 

FIRST DAY:

• 7:30 a.m. Thursday, August 16, 2012.

  • Registration & Information distribution 

• 8:00 a.m. Mr. Ted Madson, PSM, Attorney-at-Law and Mr. John D. O'Neill, PSM, Former 

  	Board Member

  • Peer Review for compliance with the the Florida Minimum Technical Standards 
    
    	of actual surveys from other surveyors in attendance

  • A review of the statutes and rules which govern the Florida Minimum Technical Standards.

• 1:00 p.m. (Class Resumes from lunch)

  • Minimum Technical Standards Review continues

• 5:15 p.m. (First day class ends)

SECOND DAY:

• 8:00 a.m. Friday, August 17, 2012 -- Mr. Larry Talbert, CIC, Insurance Representative for the Council

  • Workers' Compensation and Errors and Omissions issues.

• 1:00 p.m. (Class Resumes from lunch).

  • Professional liability loss control

  • Mandatory requirements as a surveying employer

• 5:15 p.m. (Second day class ends).

THIRD DAY:

• 8:00 a.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012 -- Mr. Ted Madson, PSM, Attorney-at-Law and Mr. John D. O'Neill,

  	PSM, Former Board Member and Council President

  • Mandatory Florida Laws 

  • Boundary Law Topics

• 1:00 p.m. (Class Resumes from lunch).

  • Current Events in Surveying and Mapping 

  • Questions and Answers

• 5:00 p.m. Saturday, August 18, 2012 -- Award of diplomas

The course text for the Retreat will be our text of Florida laws and regulations which will be used to address issues of law plus other handouts, as needed. We have updated these texts to be current to May, 2010. This is especially important now since the Department of Agriculture, Division of Consumer Services, has taken over the Board of Professional Surveyors & Mappers from the Department of Business & Professional Regulation. In fact, the rules regulating the Board have now changed from 61G-17, F.A.C. to 5J-17, F.A.C. If you have your copy of the text with you at the Retreat, you will not be required to purchase another set.  We’ll take major credit cards (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover) as well as checks and cash at the Retreat. To obtain your text materials in advance of the Retreat, please send your $95.00 payment ($75.00 for the text plus $20.00 shipping and handling) to:

Land Surveyor's Council

Post Office Box 1041

Douglas, Georgia 31533-1041

(800) 874-7876 -- Toll-Free Phone

(800) 304-4809 -- Toll-Free FAX

Don’t forget, if you need your 24 Mandatory Continuing Education Credit Hours, you’re a Council member, and can’t make it to this important Retreat, our Board approved Correspondence Course program which has been provided to all licensed Florida Surveyors & Mappers and will be graded FREE for all current Council members will meet your needs.

Don't lose your completion certificate!! Duplicate completion certificates are available at the rate of $25.00 per certificate for members who require duplicate certificates as proof of continuing education credit.